Sentence examples for contraption and a from inspiring English sources

Playing on themes of metamorphosis and escape, a female performance artist wrangles a straitjacket with a modern twist, a 3-D hologram of a hand floats above a sealed contraption, and a Houdini-inspired chandelier does its best to fly.

Also on the roster is a Belgian show built around a Rube Goldberg-type contraption and a silent history of Franco's Spain told via manipulated trinkets and old photographs.

After a quick introduction to the mechanics of operating the contraption and a few words about its idiosyncrasies, I loaded the appropriate app on my iPad and went down to the beach.

But even with that curious six-stringed contraption and a delivery reminiscent of an overbearing light-rail busker, his cathartic take on "Movin' Out" stood out.

In Justin Dearinger's Reddit AMA, he claimed that "they actually take out a lot of the stuff that they showed on TV," such as in his case, a "pop-up" champagne contraption and a "drive-in theater".

Dubbed the Times Ironman Speed and Distance System, it's a two-piece contraption and combines an Ironman digital watch with a separate GPS unit, which can be strapped to the arm or clipped to the waist.

Or, for the more adventurous, there's a communal "fisting chapel" in the attic that features all sorts of medieval-looking contraptions and a large mural of muscular men sticking limbs, chains, and traffic cones up one another's anuses in a series of complex, painful-looking positions.

This is one reason that horror has always been a director's medium: the horror movie is a contraption, and it takes a certain organizational flair to design, pace and frame a scare.

If you were dropping off a baby, you slunk to the turning-cradle in the dark of night, laid the bundle on it, turned the contraption, and rang a bell to alert those inside.

PARIS — Americans call it a Rube Goldberg machine, Britons a Heath Robinson contraption and the Danes a Storm P machine.

Within a year, though, Godley and Creme had quit, to work on a guitar-based contraption called "the gizmo" and a triple album featuring comedian Peter Cook and jazz legend Sarah Vaughan, entitled Consequences.